Improvement in reversible-butts



@admitted gieten @met Gemine GEORGE W.A` FIELD, or LOWE-LL, MASSACHUSETTS,.Assenoli To nIMsELr AND ROBERT H. BUTOHER, .vOl SAME PLAGE: A

Letters Patent No. 109,604, dated ovember v29, 1870; antedated November 12, 1870. I

IMPROVEMENT IN. REVERSIBLE-Bu'r'rs.v

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FIELD, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Butts or Hinges, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the ae- -com panyin g drawing making part oi' this specification,

in which- Figures 1 and 2 represent each a plan or face elevation, the former partially in perspective.

Figures 3 and 4 are end elevations of the two parts detached..

This invention relates to lreversible hinges, an'd which vare adapted for hanging a door to the right or the left-hand side of the passage or jamb.

This invention consists of a stand, B, having hinging-hubs r/ g' on oppositeends, sides, and edges thereof', whereby suoli stand may be reversed, and the leaf' A applied to form a right or a left-hand hinge, as elearl y shown in the drawing.

When' the stand B is applied inthe form shown in fig. 1, the upper hub gis let into the jalnb of the door beyond the plate port-ion, and the leaf A is let into the edge of the door, and this swings the door to the left when opened toward the operator.

Vhen the stand B is applied to the opposite side or jamb, and. in the vform shown in fig. 2, it is turned end for' end ilatwise, and n'ot edgewise, and this brings the hnb g downward and outward to receive lche pintle, which is set in the hub O of the leaf.

'lhe hub g' becomes the upper hub, and is let into Witnesses:

JOHN E. CRANE, A. A. HART. 

